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Hello, welcome to emotional Badass where Moxie meets mindful. I'm your host, Nikkei Eisenhower,

Life Coach and Psychotherapist. And on today's episode, I'm discussing critical thinking and

current issues in mental health.

A typical definition of critical thinking is the analysis and evaluation of factual evidence

to form judgment. My definition through a lens of mental health for critical thinking

is the analysis and evaluation of factual and intuitive evidence to form discernment.

Highly sensitive people and survivors are easily manipulated because they're big empathy and

big heart. It's why so many of us have narcissistic patterns of attraction. So we need to be able to

practice discernment and we need to be able to critically think appropriately to be able to

get to discernment. The end goal of critical thinking is to be able to make really great decisions

for our lives and hopefully decisions that bring lightness and ease, not unnecessary struggle.

This is part of why it's a pretty big deal for a highly sensitive person or a survivor

to learn how to heal and manage anxiety and fear because anxiety and fear shut down or override

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